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Of the Essex Invertebrate Fauna, the Mollusca have, 

 perhaps, received the most attention. One of our first contribu- 

 tions to this subject was Mr. Laver's Hst of the land and fresh- 

 water Mollusca of the Colchester district (Trans. II., 88). The 

 later papers relating to the recent, and fossil Mollusca of the 

 County are given below in chronological order : — 



"Preliminary List of the Land and Fresh-water Mollusca occurring in the 



neighbourhood of Felstead " ; J- F'rench, Essex Nat., II., i and 46. 

 " List of Mollusca occurring in an alluvial deposit of the Cann Valley"; 



R. W. Christy; Ibid. III. ; 7. 

 " On the Mollusca of the Shell Marl occurring at Felstead and in other 



parts of Esse.K " ; J. French, with remarks by W. H. Dalton, Ibid. 



III., II. 

 "List of Land and Fresh-water Mollusca from the Alluvial Deposit at 



Roxwell" ; R. W. Christy and B. B. Woodward, Ibid. III., 176. 

 " On the occurrence of Cyclostoma elegans in a living state at Felstead " : 



J. French, Ibid. IV., 92. 

 " On the Land and Fresh-water Mollusca collected in Wanstead and the 



neighbouring Districts in the Becontree Hundred " ; W. Crouch, 



Ibid. IV., 202. 

 " List of Land and Fresh-water Mollusca occurring in the neighbourhood of 



Bishop's Stortford" ; E. G. Ingold, Ibid. IV , 215 and V., 202. 

 " Note on Hydrobia jenkinsi " ; Edgar A. Smith, Ibid. IV., 212. 

 " Notes on the Mollusca of the Thames Estuary, with a list of Species 



observed " ; A. J. Jenkins, Ibid. V., 220. 

 " On the occurrence of Crepidula fornicata, L. off the Coast of Essex " ; W. 



Crouch, Ibid. VIII. , 36; X., 353. 

 " Pleistocene Non-marine Mollusca from Walton-on-the-Naze " ; W. M. 



Webb, Ibid. VIII., 160. 

 " Note on the Shells from the Brick Earth at Chelmsford " ; W. M. Webb, 



Ibid. IX., 19. 

 "The Non-marine Mollusca of Essex " ; W. M. Webb. Ibid. X., 27 ; 65. 

 " The Post-Pliocene Non-marine Mollusca of Essex " ; A. S. Kennard and 



B. B. Woodward ; with contributions by W. M. Webb, Ibid. X., 87. 

 "Notes on the Mollusca (Post-Pliocene and Recent) of Felstead"; A. S. 



Kennard and B. B. Woodward, Ibid. X., 185. 

 '■ The Post-Pliocene Non-marine Mollusca of Ilford " ; A. S. Kennard and 



B. B. Woodward, Ibid. XL, 213. 

 "The Non-marine Mollusca of the Walton Crag"; A. S. Kennard and 



B. B. Woodward, Ibid. XL, 216. 

 " Pleistocene Non-marine Mollusca from Clacton-on-Sea " ; W. M. Webb, 



Ibid. XL, 225. 

 " Notes on the Mollusc Paludestrina jenkinsi. Smith, in Essex and else- 

 where " ; A. S. Kennard aud B. B. Woodward, Ibid. XL, 288. 

 I think this remarkable series of contributions speaks well 

 for the activity of the malacologists. Our entomologists have 

 also shown considerable activity, but there is yet an nnmense 



